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Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal?

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal?
Date	2025-04-18 16:20 +0000
Organization	the-candyden-of-code
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RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote at 23:21 this Thursday (GMT):
> On 2025-04-17, Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Subject says it all.
>>
>> I'm curious whether there are people who do all their computing, or part
>> of it, without a GUI at all.  That is, just plain Text Mode.
>>
>> While I use a GUI mostly, there are times I just want to discard the GUI
>> and switch to the Framebuffer and just use text mode.  Its not just for
>> 'retro' reasons, but having a purely text based set up does reduce
>> distraction!  The fact that nothing else is visible (except the TMUX
>> modeline) and nothing else is going on, just creates a different
>> experience, one more conducive to single minded focus.  The mental
>> map of what is going on is different, cleaner.
>>
>> Just want to hear other peoples thought, whether they find this too.
>
> I'm responding to this post using Jstar (a variation of the JOE editor) 
> under slrn. I use the CLI (and small shell scripts) regularly for writing, 
> taking notes, monitoring my computer, downloading YouTube videos or 
> extracting audio from these videos. I also occasionally convert audio or 
> graphic files within the CLI or extract text from PDFs to create ePubs. 
> There's other stuff I do too, they're just not coming to mind right now. I 
> would guess that about 15-20% of my computer time is spent in the terminal.


A lot of the standard/oss tools in Linux seem to be command line based
(ffmpeg, imagemagick, pandoc), and its also fun to script stuff.
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-17 11:08 +0000
  Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-17 23:21 +0000
    Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-18 16:20 +0000
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-19 00:10 +0000
        Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-21 22:40 +0000
  Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-18 02:49 +0000
    Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-18 06:28 +0000
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-18 08:13 +0000
  Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-18 08:55 +0000
    Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-18 06:22 -0700
  Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-04-18 10:41 +0000
    Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-18 12:41 +0000
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-04-18 13:40 +0000
        Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-18 06:44 -0700
        Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-18 17:50 +0000
          Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-04-18 21:01 +0000
            Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-19 00:09 +0000
              Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-04-19 08:13 +0000
                Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-19 08:18 +0000
        Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-19 09:43 +0000
          Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-04-19 10:56 +0000
            Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-04-19 08:22 -0400
            Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-04-19 15:14 +0000
            Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-20 12:28 +0000
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-18 17:58 +0000
        Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-04-19 07:08 -0400
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-19 00:08 +0000
        Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-21 22:40 +0000
          Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-22 01:45 +0000
            Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-22 01:56 +0000
  Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Ethan Carter <ec1828@somewhere.edu> - 2025-04-23 00:25 -0300
    Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com> - 2025-04-25 15:19 +0000
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-25 23:22 +0000
    Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-25 23:21 +0000
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-26 00:34 +0000
    Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-25 23:38 +0000
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-26 01:24 +0000

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